Definitions
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- adjective Speaking one or more
Sinitic orChinese language(s),Chinese -speaking - noun a person who speaks one or more of the
Sinitic orChinese language(s) either natively or by adoption, aChinese -speaking person.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Too many writers pursue intellectual agendas of the Western academy in the guise of thoughtful engagement with the Sinophone thinking world.
Worrying about China 2007
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Chinese thinkers, the men and women who are searching for contemporary meaning in the context of the struggle for the modern in the Chinese, or Sinophone world.
Worrying about China 2007
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So too will the Sinophone world be enriched and enhanced by the growing communities of users of Chinese who learn, employ and creatively engage with living Sinitic legacies.
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When I speak of the creative engagement with the evolution of the Sinophone world, I do not just mean that foreigners will be a trendy accessory or a useful tool.
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Simply put, and to quote my initial essay on the subject, New Sinology is: descriptive of a robust engagement with contemporary China and indeed with the Sinophone world in all of its complexity, be it local, regional or global.
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When I speak of the creative engagement with the evolution of the Sinophone world, I do not just mean that foreigners will be a trendy accessory or a useful tool.
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Just as the Anglophone world-that is the linguistic realm that started out limited to the British Isles-has become part of world culture, as have French and Spanish and Arabic, the Sinophone world is likewise one of global reach.
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So too will the Sinophone world be enriched and enhanced by the growing communities of users of Chinese who learn, employ and creatively engage with living Sinitic legacies.
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Just as the Anglophone world-that is the linguistic realm that started out limited to the British Isles-has become part of world culture, as have French and Spanish and Arabic, the Sinophone world is likewise one of global reach.
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Simply put, and to quote my initial essay on the subject, New Sinology is: descriptive of a robust engagement with contemporary China and indeed with the Sinophone world in all of its complexity, be it local, regional or global.
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